I've been sitting here for like 15 minutes looking at this pictures trying to find appropriate words to describe this polish and it's starting to piss me off a bit. Okay, info about the polish, you're classified as a nail blogger, you should be able to do this.

Lady mermaid is, to me at least, a duochrome polish which shifts from blue to a lilac/purple color.

Let me tell you all the good things about this polish, okay. (Now you're already assuming I'll talk some shit about it, don't you? Ah, you're just like me.)

The brush of this, and all the other essences 'effect' polishes, is one of my favorite brushes I've ever used, which is a pretty basic, standard brush. The shift that you see in the bottle really does transfer onto your nails, which is great...BUT. But... As soon as I saw this polish I had to have it, had to. Came home, took my polish off, started painting my nails with this one and.. It's sheer as a mofo. Why God? Why this polish, why me?

Don't get me wrong now, the formula -even if it's I mean come on sheer as fuck - it's not a bad formula.

It applies really well, dries really fast and everything about this polish, in general is cool, except the fact that I could still see my vnl after 3 coats. I topped it over a black polish, this is just a single coat over black and it looks how I personally wanted it to look by itself, so it's not a 100% flop. I recommend you do that with every sheer polish, just pair it up with a color base so you don't end up wasting your best years because you were trying to build up a polish to full opacity.

I know it's just a polish, but sometimes the smallest things frustrate me so much, what can I say?

All in all, if you want a cool new topper, I'd recommend you to try this polish. I think it would be amazing in some sort of a galaxy manicure. :D If you want to try it on it's own, be my guest, get ready to be frustrated because I don't think you could get this opaque in less than 3-4 coats even on the shortest of nails, just saying. :)